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Graduating from the Staff College was a prerequisite for appointment to the Prussian General Staff (later the German General Staff). Carl von Clausewitz enrolled as one of its first students in 1801 (before it was renamed), while other attendees included Field Marshals von Steinmetz, von Moltke, and von Blumenthal in the 1820s and 1830s.
King Frederick the Great (1712–1786, reigned 1740–1786), a formidable battle commander, led the disciplined Prussian troops to victory during the 18th century Silesian Wars and greatly increased the prestige and military reputation throughout Europe and among the hodge-podge array of various German states kingdoms, duchies, principalities ...
Hermann von Boyen, 2nd Chief of the Prussian Military Cabinet Edwin von Manteuffel, portrait by Richard Brend'amour. The Military Cabinet (Militärkabinett) was a military advisory body under the direct command of the King of Prussia, and by extension the German Emperor after 1871, for handling personnel matters of the army officer corps.
Sep. 5—WILKES-BARRE — Dr. Jan Kretzschmar, program director of exercise science at King's College, this week said the college is thrilled to be recognized as a pioneer in exercise science ...
26th (2nd Württemberg) Dragoons "King" Stuttgart-Cannstatt: 27th Division: 53rd Infantry Brigade 123rd (5th Württemberg) Grenadiers "King Charles" Ulm: 124th (6th Württemberg) Infantry "King William I" Weingarten: 54th Infantry Brigade 120th (2nd Württemberg) Infantry "Emperor William, King of Prussia" Ulm: 127th (9th Württemberg) Infantry ...
Stein arrived in East Prussia and led the raising of Landwehr (militia) to defend the province. With Prussia's joining of the Sixth Coalition out of his hands, Frederick William III quickly began to mobilize the army, and the East Prussian Landwehr was duplicated in the rest of the country. In comparison to 1806, the Prussian populace ...
The Regiment was founded with a strength of two battalions in 1675 as “Regiment Kurprinz” under the command of Prince Frederick of Brandenburg, the later King Frederick I of Prussia. In 1688 the later King Frederick William I of Prussia became the nominal Commander of the Regiment. After Frederick William I ascended to the throne in 1713 ...
The Prussian Navy fought in several wars but was active mainly as a merchant navy throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as Prussia's military consistently concentrated on the Prussian Army. The Prussian Navy was dissolved in 1867 when Prussia joined the North German Confederation , and its naval forces were absorbed into the North German ...